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ter forces,`: I venture to solicit a place for a few observations, which I hope may tend to attract the reviving attention of the public to foreign politics, absorbed of late years almost entirely by domestic affairs and jobbing schemes. It was firreteen by all pru dent and calculating urea, who were aware of the secret springs that moved the Government Of France to the perfidious and •cruel invasion of Spain in MS, what would be the result of our time serving policy. The storm has been ever s in ce b rew i n g. Th e events in Portugal have hastened the denouement, for Tuesday _ night last the ice was broken by the Minister, who, very con sistently, first informs us, in the Royal Speech, ef the amicable aa surrinces (not dispositions, he it remarked) of all the Powers, and l a a few hours after, that some of these amicable gentlemen re quired the coercive presence of a British squadron to restrain them horn plunging us into an extended warfare. By the reliorts in • different papers, he appears to have been successfully answered by Sir Robert Wilson, and driven into a corner, from which he has no logical escape, unless be should favour us by some other and deeper revelations than he may deem it convenient to impart at this moment. In the mean time, it may be useful to prepare the public mind for impending events, by recalling to mind the circumstances connected with the question now at issue. It is useless now to revert to the full history of base in trigues for the invasion of Spain carried on by France. MI that was predicted to arise from it has been, or bids f'r to be, ac- Complished. Mr. Canning, relying on tint assurances of M. de Villele, never could bring himself to believe that this unprincipled and insulting net of aggression, in reference to England, would ever be at tempted. M. de Villele , like other Minister', loving Ida piece better than his notions of right a n d wrong, yielded to the storm excited by the priest party and Ultras, threw off the Royal mask, unblushingly violating every assurance that had:becn given. Mr. Canning, duped and taken .aback, reluctantly, I believe, found himself obliged to acquiesce, and content himself with laying in a claim of gime or four conditions art the consideration of neutrality; mill this impolitic, disgusting, and dithonouring compeet for the abandonment of the national honour as well as interests was af firmed. After having for a century past missed no occasion of thru , tiri - ntir heath, into every petty quarrel, we are at last, with out ".eptignance, - contented to pass by thin, which, in all its beara 'digs, moat deeply affects our honour and prosperity. The pacific, or rather timid and anti-liberal party, prevailed in the Cabinet; it held the country to be too distressed by its late efforts, and in. disposed to renew them in any cause ; but it failed in observing, that France, from the same and other moral causes, was not in a condition to risk a contest with Englend for the support of the dominion of priesteraft and absolutism, with her hostile popula tion to control at the. same time. Here was that sad deficiency of statesman-like vigour and reflection, that ought at once' to have decided oar wavering resolutions... Had the Government. then sent the squadron which they have been compelled to main tain at Lisbon for the last three years, to Barcelona, and repealed the Foreign Enlistment Bill, it would.have hearth no more of French invasion, and have been spared its subsequent modifications at the unespeeted success of the French enterprise, the now necessity defence of Portugal, and the false and entangled position , in Which it now stands. Mr. Canning, however, satisfied him - "U . with, some smart sallies against the Bourbone, and when sinus 1110 :ner finctold that the result of • our endurance would be war sooner or later, he emphatically and nreplietically replied, , f The n I nay later ;'l thereby, for the sake of an epigrammatic point., making an absurd choice ; for there could be no question but, and every day confirms it, that the power and resources of France were are rapidly advancing as those of England wereacceding. To -he finally kicked and drove into a war (after the steed is carried off), and after having sustained it in disguise, is certainly no very cre ditable result of our diplomacy, tho Ugh ,by no means an unusual one; for. when has it happened that quitting the plain and broad path of manly sense and duty, we have profited by the exchange? The act of invasion was consummated, and the natural conic quences only have followed in the protection, physical and moral, afforded to the desperate and fanatical party by the army and in thience of - France. We are not permitted to doubt that Mr. Can ning heft been sagacious enough to ,discover, that the presence of 'the French army, prolonged now font. years, is the real source of all the evils that afflict Spain .anti endanger nor security ; that he ka Imre than once reMinded Mon& de, Villele of one of the eon ditionsof our neutrality; and has even, within the last year, ven tured to remonstrate in stronger terms, and to hint that there are just limits to patience and forbearance. Mons. de Villele, reduced to the • same state and to the same expedients as in PM, professes an equal anxiety for the removal of the French anny, and I conceive with truth. He • craves, however, further delay, on fresh pretences (fok the happy epoch tan never, in the nature of things, arrive,) and obtains it from fethuleneas and timidity of cur council... Again, as before, it 'is a contest with him between his place snit his principles, for 41e-entire Jesuit clew of France are inseparably bound. up and - connected with those cf SPain, for common objects of power and interest ; and he must submit to their Will and plans, or quit his station. The clergy of Spain are neusible that the continued pos session of their enormous revenues and political influence dep end - ton the maintenauce of absolute power, and therefore spare no in -lice:lie:11;3 to oht . ain . the . assistance of the •brotherhood in France is it.. Hence the intrigues employed to subvert the con aiitution in Portugal, the eontagion of which is justly dreaded, end in which there is ton much - reason to fear th e y w ill succee d , if we c on ti nue to look on with the same apathetic indefinite post. ponernent .of the evacuation. Are these not motives that eught to influence Omit 'Britain -to a ditTerctit tine .cu :conduct from that i the to adopted? • First', is national honour of no importance? Are those prin ciples en which the just balance of power and our own security depend, and which we have ao lately defended at the expence of 40 much blood'aml treasure, to be cast soide in favour of those who may attribute their present elevation to the overthrow of the man wlio disputed them ? la it nothing that this nation is to be kept in a (untitined feverish state of alarm, and to he compelled to employ precautionary artnammus ? is it of no consequence that Fratlce ()cronies the impregnable ports and fortreases of Spain, and t o , the whole Peninsula Nrlien she pleases, menacing, by her position, and slisturbing by the tottig4s of the Jesuits, the, 0 0 4, 104 of Ire land? fist it , of no inoinent that the peaceable recognition of the free States of South Assiut ica is retarded, and that the finest por lion of Europe now Linguitshei in the moat hopeless state of wretchcineas and degredation, :theiyby excluding our industry front the extensive 'scope it would receive, on the restoration of Spain to civilization and legitimato Govenunent? Snub are the effects - of the armed intervention of France in the internal affairs of Spaiu in reference to British interests I claim nothing 'for the Sponiili people. I will admit, not only that we are too poor, but likewise the folly of lighting the bat tles of other nations; hot not that, we are unable to defend our own lionotir 'and interests against an insulting and wilful ettack on both. The same sentimait that linnets every man to defend his private honour, will otvkl• be (timid wanting when that of his country is assailed. Nor will he be indisposed to make the extremeat sacrifice for this purpose, when he rectillecta the per fidy and ingratitude of his adVernary. The danger is imminent, and daily advancing nearer. Firmneas may yet atop its progress, hut tame obsequiousness roust iufdlihly lead 113 into war or into 'total loss of character. .Fait co dois, avienne flue pourra, should be, our device from Able time., Our honour and our national, fatty alike de mand protedion and redress. ONE OF TUE OLD SCHOOL. Lord 'Milton is reported to have said, in the House of ComMons,on Wednesday night, that," there was no evil upon landed , proprietors so oppressive as that attendant upon the conveyance of estates, arising from the ingenuity of the, gentlemen of the laW. From What he knew on this subject; he believed that the hunted interest suffered much more from the affliction. of this special pleading than from any evils likely to arikarto them from the alteration in the Corn Laws." We agree with Lord Milton that the landed interest are put to great vexation and expense by the ahsttrd technicalities Of conveyaneing,-which techni calities, fuel the nice and ;anion s points of pleading that purpose but to embarrass the arise alit of them, serve PO transfer of landed property, and afford to lawyers H. lux uriant harvest of litigation. But to whet cause is this to be attributed ? Lord Milton says, to the i ngenuity of laWyers. How can that be,. seeing that they must, take the law as they find it? . To what cause then is it owing? To the landed proprietors themselves, whose aristocratic folly induced them to discountenance the original and simple triode's of conveying real property, and to pass 'Acts of Par liement to make the alienation of estates as difficult to possible, that thereby great possessions might accumulate 3n partienlar families, and the grandeur of what were called ancient names be upheld at''the'eipence of the general interests et the 'community. -This tloti trine Of accumula tion Francis jßordett - advocated with great 2etil in thelateParhament, thereby nisintaining; in spite o f the pelitkatf - philosophy of wegtthingto,, thatlhe Nor man Lords anti :thei r ; feudat system; which made 'tedi gree every thintr'and the people nothing,'Ought =to . he preferred t o .a . stitte *3l Society in which great men and: great popertio were th tendered amenable to the laWs of civilization. F. Was WhOrt a landed, aristocracy, t h a t acted „poi., Sir F. Burdett 's notion of fettering estates in perpetuity, passed the Act of Westminster the second, commonly called the Statute Dc Donis, that the foundation was laid for . the present subtle, complicated, expensive, and inseenie system of conveyancing. By that statute entailed estates were first created, instead of the condi tional fees at common law; and by that statute the landed interest hoped to make the alienation of estates so dif ficult, as to preserve for ever the power, .which great possessions confer, in the same hands hat held it then. The Judges, who front their education, and habits of thinking and observation, were more enlightened than the illiterate and martial nobility, soon per ceived that this doctrine of perpetuity would work great mischief to the general interests of the country, by so tying up property ax to put an unnatural restraint on the diffusion and circulation of wealth. The. Judges, however, had no influence that could overcome that of the aristocracy in Parliament ; but they endea -votired to carry into effect, by subtle devices and legal stratagems, those principles which they could not establish by direct power. —They contrived or countenanced certain fictions for conveyan cing, for the purpose of evading the Statute De Donis, and opening estates tail notwithstanding its restrictions. , Hence arose those apparently absurd legal forms 'of levying _fines and suffer ing recoveries, by which such estates are now unfettered and con veyed. They are founded on fictions that appear ridiculous, and which are certainly expensive, but were invented for the purpose of giving a colour of law to the actual violation of the still more absurd statute that was intended to confine landed pro perty within the same channels for ever. There are a vast number of other fictions of conveyancing, originating in the necessity which existed for certain ingenious contrivances 'to meet the difficulties which the feudal vanity and ignorant domineering of the landed interest opposed to the simple facilities of the more anchmt mode of conveyaneiug. This is a subject that Lord Milton ought to have kin better acquainted with than he appears to be; and we can tell him that, before conveyancing can be materially improved, the Statute De Donis must be repealed, and the doctrine of estates tail abolished.' The pride and ambition of the landed interest have re-acted on themselves, for the very Act by which they thought to - secure their power for ever, and to make them the perpetual tyrants of the people, has operated so as to establish a tyranny of lawyers over themselves, who punish the present generation for this sins of their ancestors, by levying a perpetual tribute upon their estates.—Morning Herold. A petition was last night presented by Mr. Liddell, from the Coroners of Northumberland, praying for an in crease of their fees. We copied a paragraph from the rem's 41Ierenry of Saturday last, in which it was stated hat the receipts of Mr. Wigglesworth (recently decased), the Coroner for that immense County, for the year ending at Easter last, amounted only to 265/. ; that - he had held 180 inquests, at 1/. each, during the year, and the remain der of the 2654 was made up of travelling expences at Dd. per mile. Judging from these data, one would suppose the office of Coroner was the last which would be coveted; yet there are in Yorkshire a number of candidates, and the same competition is as uniformly witnessed elsewhere.— This is a country in which the value of money is well un derstood ; and we have little doubt, if tl-e truth were known, it would be found that the Coroners, notwithstanding the smallness of their fees; contrive, like good Englishmen, 'to make their own out of the office, either in meal or in malt. Whether the fremient contemplation of mortality has softened their hearts, and filled them with the desire to have a good income by honest, rather than .by questionable means, we know not; but whatever determination be come to regarding their fees, and whatever the degree of confidence reposed in their principles, we should think that an a precaution it would not be amiss to let a little light in on them. If Committees of the House of Commons job—if Magistrates job—why, it is possible that Coroners may also job. The Canner., we know, are by no means so unanimous in the wish to have their Courts considered .open, as they are to have their fees increased; but we . cannot help thinking, that as for as the public is concerned the latter would be of less importance than the former. Mr. Warburton remarked that he saw no reason why the . Coroners' Courts should not be as open as the Court of King's-Bench, the Common. Pleas, and other Courts, where ma gisterial proceedings were transacted. We profess we can also see no reason. But we can see that all Magistrates, high and low, prefer to transact business with closed doom The Coroner does not like to be • behind the fashion set by his neighbour the Justice, and anxiously does he lay hold of any words of encouragement that fall from those Judges, who have the prejudging-phobia strong upon them, to enable him to keep the public from a knowledge of his secrets. Mr. Warbur, ton says, he can see no reason why the Coroner's Court should not be as open as the Court of .King's Bench. We can see one pOwerful reason why it should be equally open, and that is, the necessity of trying before a Jury. It is preposterous to con found the duty of a Coroner with that of a Magistrate, in his in quisitorial capacity ; because the presence of a Jury puts all idea of secrecy and inquisitorial proceedings out of the question. A secret known to a Coroner's Jury is likely to be as well kept as a secret told in the barber's shop in shaving neighbourhood, on a Sunday. attuning. Wherever a Jury is called in, the country is supposed to be present.—Aforning Chronicle. The Corporation of the City of London, which is one of the purest in the kingdom, according to Mr. Richard Taylor, whose opinion we have no disposition to under value, possesses, according to the Report of the City Finance Committee (see our Report of the proceed ings of the Court of Common Council yesterday, in ano ther column) the soodlY Revenue of 114,992/. But this pure Corporation, which never could be charged with injuring the trade of the Port of London (for Mr.. John Hall's detail of the injuries inflicted on trade, by the Col:lunation, is deserving of little credit; and the comparison between the tnpnieipal regulations of Li verpool end the Metropolis, which seldom redound to the adVantage of the latter, is equally undeserving of notiee)—which keeps up no uselesS places—which has no wish fir more than a proper share of patronage—Which is the most economical of public Imdies, has, like some other pub lie bodies, discOvered the secret of being at once most pure and most prodigal ; for the expenditure greatly exceedi the income. During the last five years, the deficit amounts to no less than 62,9711. ; as large a tam almost as that which produced the French Revolution, and nearly destroyed, according to the late Mr. George Rose, our most holy religion. In short, it was avowed yesterday, that this model of Corporations was "on the brink of bankruptcy." The Corporation abound in virtues; they are libe ral, they are generous, they are improvers of the very first water; but, alas! with all these virtues, they are on the brink of bank ruptcy, and their virtues are threatened with an untimely dissolu tion. In short, a motion was made yesterday, with a view to in duce them to tie up their hands for Nome time—to relax a little in th e i r observance of Sheridan's golden maxim, which, as it has brought many a good-fellow into the King's Bench, may possibly bring the pure Corporation of Lo n d on i nto some ether asylum for distressed virtue. The Members for the county of Surrey look with an evil eye on the liberality which eaddles . their constituents with an oppressive tax on coals, and would fain pick holes in the skirts of the Corporation.—/bid. We are really Sickened at the continued. outcry for reduction of taxes, and a diMinished expenditure. Whe never temporary distress comes—no matter from what cause —an over issue of papera bad harvest—an unnatural in terfereece with the market for labourers, resulting from the sudden discharge of soldiers and sailors—still the re medy, the only remedy, is, reduced taxes—diminish the Government establishments. People altogether forget what a very small proportion the whole Revenue, collected by the Crown, bears to the real income of the country. — If the calculations of Political Economists be entitled to respect, the total annual income of Great Britain, estimated in money, exceeds 1,000 millions, the article of Corn pro ducing 100 millions. Supposing then it were possible, at once, to discontinue the collection of the 50 millions of taxes now levied, would it affect more than one-twentieth part of the whole ? Of this fifty millions also, it must be remembered, 30 millions are at once paid back to the public as dividends—the Government 'being merely the medium of receiving from one, and transferring to another, and not in any. material degree affecting the produce.— Again it is said, that more is taken from individuals in this country for taxes than can be borne. We deny the fact. We assert that, in proportion to our means, we are the lewd taxed nation in Europe. Each individual gains infinitely - more by the application of machinery and steam, than he pays on account of taxes. Take the poorest man - : Does he pay, on his porter and beer, or on 011ie taxed arti des together, what he saves on cheap dothinfalone ? out machinery, he must give four days labour, et least, for a pair of stockings ; now he gets them, - for one; and 'the labour required in exchange for every other article is diminished in it greater or less prOportion. Let an average of years be taken, and who will not Say that an English labourer consumes more—that is, to say, is better fed, better clothed, and better lodged, than the labourer of any Other country_ in t urope, in spite of all the taxes. We have heard many very large estimates of the additions made to the productive power of the country by machinery, the loWest quadruples the extent of that. tabour ; thus making the lahour of fifteen millions equal to the labour of sixty millions; whilst the total Crown revenue collected is not equal to the labour of three millions, thus giving an excess of produce, in favour of machinery, of forty-two millions. In point, of fiiet, however, the whole disposable revenue to be disbursed for the Army, Navy, and Esta blishments, would not maintain one million of men. It.is not our present purpose to argue, either that the Army, Navy, or Establishments, are more or less than is necessary —more money may or may not be expended than ought to be expended—that is fair ground of argument and enough of argument and of declamation too we have upon it. The folly, the egregious folly, is to suppose, that the existing national distress is to be relieved by ally, even the most successful result of, such discussions. Aa Mr. Canning so properly asked on the first day of the Ses sion—" Would you discharge men, when the market is already over-stocked with labour ?" We would put the fines don one point further, and asked the landed interest—would you wish to provide for more paupers from the poor -rates, instead of allowing the present number of men, at least, to be maintained out of the taxes ? The market for labour is now overstocke&—it is, therefore, on the plain prin ciples of demand, and supply certain, that every man dis charged by the Government, must either displace another workman, or come himself on the parish. Now, we would venture to ask any calm and diSpassionate noin, if, at this moment, a tax of .5/. were levied on each gentleman's car riage, and 20,000 men collected from the starving popu lation of Manchester, and fed and clothed by the money se obtained, would not the operation be, as far as it went, a beneficial one ? If it would no t be beneficial, why are subscriptions collecting all over the country to maintein the poor ? Is it any difference (we speak of a substantial difference, not that - which is found only in the mind) whether U. be taken as a tax on a luiory, or given as a donation—or whether a man be fed as a cottager without work, or as a soldier without Work ? Abuse is not argu ment. Give our question a fair and candid answer. We ' are not now entering into the cause of the existing dis tress—we are not proposing a remedy ; for we laugh at those who think Government, acting on a fiftieth, or even a twentieth, part of a whole, can provide a remedy ; all we contend for is, that, to raise money by taxes, or to borrow, by loan, from those who have it, and employ soldiers and sailors, would, ut this time, be a wiser , and better mea sure on the part of Government, and tend, as far as it went, to give more substantial relief to the country than a reduction of taxes, and a discharge of soldiers and sailors, or any other description of persons now employed by the Crown. Under these circumstances we do earnestly hope that Ministers, convinced, as they must be, that they have it not in their power materially to aid the country, will not, by giving way to an idle and an ignorant clamour for a reduction of taxes, and a diminution of expenditure, take measures which, so far as they have any operation at all, must inevitably increase the temporary distress under which we are now suffering. —New Times. LAW INTELLIGENCE. ROLLS COURT, THURSDAY, Nov. SO. STEPHENS V. UNTHANK. Mr. ROUPELL stated that he had obtained an order for liberty to prove, at the hearing before Lord "Gifford, the . execution of mortgage deed. The only subscribing witness attended the Conrt for that purpose. He was an old man, with very weak sight, and he remained in Court es long as be was able; but when it grew dusk he left the Court. He has since become totally blind. Mr. Roupell now applied for leave to examine the witnesses tie bens ease upon interrogatories. The MASTER OF THE ROLLS---Has the Court power, after an accident of this nature, to, accede to a motion to examine the wit ness on interrogatories ? Mr. SUGDEN—I apprehend not. The MASTER OF Till. ROLLS—I will make an order. Mr. Stionzu—The practice of the Court is the law of the Court. The Manta or THE ROLLS—Certainly) but if the Court has not the power; - They are mere shackled thin a Court of Law. I will make the , precedent. • After some further discussion, Mr. ROUPELL at last acceded to Mr. Sugden's offer, admitting all such facts as could have been obtained by a favourable answer to all such questions as Mr. Ron pelt or the Registrar would have had,a right to have put to the witness if the accident had not happened. Mr. SUGEMN--On payment of coats. Mr. Roc rer.t—What ! the act of Gad? The AiAhTSH. Or THE ROLLS—It muet be on payment of costs. The misfortune is yours. The act of God commits no injustice. LORD MAYOR'S COURT, THURSDAY, Nov. 80. roan, PLAINTIFF', nEsillwrow AND elle, BA NIKVISp OARNISIMEA, SVALKOND, M.P. FOR MJDRURY , DIKFENDANT• Upon a former day Mr. Barnard moved that the plaintiff should Show cause why common b a il s h ou ld not b e fi l e d i n disso _ _ tion of this attachment, the defendant having the privilege of Parliament. The motion was founded upon an affidavit, stating that on the 18th of June Mr. Walrond was elected and returned as Representative for the Borough of Sudbury, in the county of Suffolk, in the United Parliament of Great Britain and Ireland, and that the attachment in this muse was issued, and the action of debt on which it was founded, was entered on the 4th of Auguit lost, as appeared by the record, and subsequent to the re turn of the defendant to serve in Parliament. The amount of the plaintiff's claim was 1,0501., and it was admitted by him that the defendant was a Representive in Par liament. ,A nde nisi was granted, and BintiArtn oa Wednesday called upon the plaintiff to show cause. . . Mr. BOLLAND, for the plaintiff, said he would moat unfeignedly say that common bail ought not to be taken in dissolution of this tiachruent. Mi. Law argued upon the ranee side, and quoted several authorities. Mr. flanwarto argued that the attachment ought to be die-. charged - upon the filing of common bail. Mr. Waliond was not, he contended, liable to be held to hail in that Court. The plain tiff's action,tuust be brought according to the custom, and it must appear upon the return that Mr. %frond was non eat inventus ct nihil, before he could be made amenable, and no such return had been made. Mr. LAW said that such return had been made. Mr. BAILNA RD denied it. How could it be said that Mr. Walroud could he held to bail ? In what Court could he be held to ban ? No capita could go against his person. He could not be brought into that Court, and therefore the foundation of the action failed. The question really Was, whether this gentle men, as a Member of the Home of Commons, could be held to bail in that Court. How would the Speaker of the House of Commora, digest the intelligence; that 'because a Merither refused to appear in that Court be was sent to the Poultry Cornpter ? Mr. LA would'nt like it at all, rdare say.—(A laugh.) The llitcoanca.--Well, Mr. Barnard, I have very little doubt indeed on th e case , b ut I shall consider it.---Judgment postponed. COUR' T OP ExcHEQUEII-..:Nov. SO. (Continued front our paper of yesterday.) DE PENDANT'S CASE. Mr. Jewels rose to address the Jury for the defendant. The Learned Counsel stated that Mr. Oldfield had been unfortunate 1 and criminal eno ug h to engage in certain gambling transact i ons, for which he w as fi ned and imprisoned by the Court of King's Bench. The. fin e was no leas than 4,500 ,and Mr. Oldfield had been in custody i n execution of the sentence of the Court, from February, 1828, down to the nefarious transactions, induced him to resent time. The misery brought upon the defendant by these endeavour to gain his' li velihood by entering some h onest b us i ness, and in the year 182, he wa s an entere d w i ne merchant in Pall mall. He begged leave to call the attention of the Jury to the amount of the fines which were now endeavoured to he levied upon the unfortunate defendant. Th s fi rs t offence charged against him, was for obtaining a P er mit for it 'certain purpose to which it was never applied : the pen a l ty f or thii was bOO/. The second of fence was of a similar nature, and the penalty the sArnst. These two involved two other offences, namely, those of' not returning the peruke to the Excise office, as they had not been used for the purpose ' for which they were obtained for each of these Offences was 1001. The third offence was, th a t of mixing a goodwine with a n i n feri or on e; . anal selling it under ; and the p ena l ty the name of superior. - 'The penalty 14 the latter w as SO O / . When the Jury considered thi s , h e was qu ite sure that th ey would think it a fearful sui t , and be very anx i ous to s i ft the evid upon which a •man w as to be thtis severely visited. Nearly ence the w hole rested upon the uncorroborated testimony of that self-con victed and disgraced wit ness , Mr. Tooke . lie put i t to the corn. MO 'moo of the Jury to de o hi o w h o l i ed committ e d these nal practices. Where was Oldfis the time?: In prison. And even if be had not been, could it be supposed that the defendant was the inventor and executor of these mixtures and doctoring', and that-the experienced wine-merchant of so years' standing was standing idly by, and neither directing nor interfering with the operation? He submitted that no penalties could be recovered against his client. Mr. Oldfield. Mr. Baron Gannow then charged the Jury. . The principal grounds of the present information were, that two permits had been obtained by the firm of the defendant ; the one for the trans ferof 288 bottles - of wine to a person named Bnckby ; the other for transferring wine, to the amount of 110 gallons, to the mother of the defendant. This was proved by written documents, and it was also proved that they, or at least the first of them, was not applied to the purpose for which it was obtained. The witness Tooke, upon whom much depended, came before them implicated in all these transactions, and was therefore to be listened to with great caution. The question was, whether his testimony was cor roborated by other evidence. The dates of the bills of parcels for powdered oyster-shells, and the other ingredients for flavour, cor responded with the dates of the perwiits. It might be true that this flavour was for Tooke's use in his men business; but then the clerk of the defendant swears that he paid that witness for the flavour, and charged it to his master. His Lordship thought it would he unnecessary to draw the attention of the Jury to any other portions of the case. He had pointed out the leading features, and would only remind them that one of the counts being dropped by the Attorney-General, the case was now con fined to the not using of two permits, and the mixing of the wines, The Jury then retired for about a quarter of an hour, rind, upon their coming into Court again, returned a verdict for the Crown on one permit, that of Mr. Buckby. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, CamaniALL, Nor. 30. DiTTON V. 11.41.94E5. This was an action at the instance of the plaintiff, to recover 100/., paid to the plaintiff by the defendant while under age, for the (attires of a house taken for him by the defendant. Mr. Sergeant Seatiara stated the case, and proved the contract by the plaintiff's two brothers, and that the defendant was well acquainted with the plaintiff and his family. Mr. - Sergeant Wanx, for the defendant, endeavoured to con vince the Jury that the defendant did not know that the plaintiff was under age; that he (the plaintiff) was in partnership with one of the brothers ; and that such a house was by no means un suitable to his station. That the action was merely a contrivance between the brothers, in order to obtain from the defendant the loss sustained by a re-sale of the fixtures. - The CHIEF JUSTICE was of opinion that the defendant, under the circumstances, could not have been ignorant of the plaintiff's being a minor, and wished it to be known by all that the law treated with the utmost severity those who encouraged the extra vagance of infants, which was frequently the means of ruining them. Verdict for the plaintiff-1001. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL—Mr , Edward Jones, a coal-merchant, at Whitefriars — wharf, appeared to answer the complaint of Mr. T. Jones, the proprietor of the White Horse tavern, Fetter-lane, for unlawfully detaining and converting to his own use four bills of exchange, entrusted to him for the purpose of being discounted. Sir PurEa. LAURIE, who had called in the assistance of the City Solicitor, under that Learned Gentleman's advice, held that the defendant had acted under 'an opinion and colour of right in detaining the bills, and therefore was not amenable as for a cri minal offence. AIARYLEBONE..-*PEATH of A CHILD BY ADMINISTERING ARDENT SlPlDlTS.—Yeaterday James Hill and William Han u lie, the former a groom, in the service of Major-General Sir William H. Clinton, Bart., M. P., of Queen Anne-street, and the latter a helper in the Mews, were brought before Mr. GRIF FITH, on a charge of murder, by causing the death of a child, under the most melancholy circumstances. The first witness ex amined was Gibbs, an active officer of this establishment, who de posed, that in consequence of having received information that a child had been killed by some persons having forced it to drink a quantity of ardent spirits, he proceeded to make the necessary in quiriei, and he ascertained that the child's name was Henry Tyers, a beautiful boy, about four years and a half old, and that his father was a coachman in the service of Lady• Caroline Bar ham, residing in Queen Anne.stiect. lie went to No. 26, Mary la-bonne Mews,where the father lived, and where he saw the child lying a corpse. The mother (who at present was confined to her bed from the bliock she had received) informed him that the child's death had been-caused by two moms in the next stable,wbo made it drink a large quantity of gin. She further stated, that feeling ' uneasy at her child's absence yesterday afternoon, between four and five o'clock, she knocked at the door of the next stable, which, after some delay and abusive language on the part of those inside, was opened, when she found the child extended on .the stones.. Before she obtained admittance, she heard the child screaming, from which she con cluded that they had locked it up, and were ill-using it. She im mediately took the infant home, where it expired at ten o'clock the same evening. After receiving this information, he proceeded to the adjoining stable, where he apprehended the prisoner Hill, who expressed his sorrow for what had happened. The other prisoner, on hearing of the circumstance, came to the office and surrendered himself voluntarily. William Davis, servant to Mr. France, of the Portland Arms, Great Mary-la-honne-street, took some gin by Hill's orders to the Mews; he took three separate quarterns within the space of twenty minutes ; the grooms drank a glass each of the first quartern, and what remained they gave to the child. Mr. GRIFFITII-How many glasses are there in a quartern ? Witness : Two half-quartern glasses, your Worship. Mr. Gnumn—What quantity might thochild have drunk the first time?--.Witness : About the sixth of The measure.' William Garrett, pot-boy at the Portland Arms, was next ex- amined. He deposed to having brought two quarterns of gin to the stable, of all of which the child freely partook, and said he liked it very well. After he took the last glass, he appeared rather giddy. He (witness) was also directed to bring a pint of ale.—Puriug the last time he remained in the stable, the child's mother entered. He began crying, and fell on the ground ; she called to him by name, and asked him what was the matter? The boy answered that he had been drinking gin. The mother then asked the prispnera what induced them to make the child drink ? Hill immediately began swearing at her, and denied the ac cusation. She likewise threatened to inform his master of the transaction, henry Tyera, the father of the child, stated, that when he left borne on Wednesday afternoon, at 20'minutes before four, the child was alive and well, and assisted him in leading out his harass ; and on his return, a few" minutes before six, he found him in a dying state, and in strong convulsions. He instantly went out and obtained medical assistance. Mr. Gilbert Burnett, surgeon, of 22, Great 3fary-la-bonnc street, stated, that he attended the child, and he had no hesitation in saying that it died from the effects of a stupifying poison. Mr. aim/wit, in committing the prisoner' for further exami tion, observed, that a doubt arose in his mind, whether,he ought not to commit Davis for administering the gin to the child ; he was so far an accessary to the transaction.—They were then re manded for another examination. LIVERPOOL, Nov. 29. Our Cotton Market continues very steady in prices, and the de mand is very good. The sales in the week amount to about 6,600 a 6,000 bags. This morning, about three o'clock, a shocking accident occurred in Norris -court, Preston-street, by the falling of the chimney of the imaltworks, in Spitalfields, by which the roofe,of two adjoin ing houses were forced in, and three persons were killed on the spot, and one dangerously, and eight slightly wounded. Richard Peers, a poor aged labourer, who lived in the centre house, and who ie himself much bruised, said, that at an early hour, this morning, he was awakened by a rumbling noise, and the falling of bricks on hie bead and body ; he awakened his wife, and they o L th a e n r dl i s o y aand morehis called to their lodgers, who slept in a room immediately above them; but receiving no answer, both ran into the street, and they had scarcely got clear of the house befo d re ea t d h . e r l o n of th o e f thlotuts,eaws where as of the adjoining one, fell in with a dreadful crash and becam e one heap of ruins. The neighbours immediately commenced dig.. nearest the bottom of the court b w r e u r is e v : un an d d ging in the ruins, in order to e xtricate the sufferers. In the hone* Peers locked d ed in "wwescliriotngfoht:triaidafarwouremhilpevirsoni s te t n a s ted wo ab n o n v d e ed , wounded, a to nd tal on o e i d t ea lr d e ' and from the ruins of the other house five p i n ion were extricated : Peterthe s°kiniilgeleflodtftaltndeheg:neenitieerylvoun d d an ge rouslyed. DlsT n xs Fix xci SitiPw.itEcx.--Arrived on Sunday last his majesty's sloop Clio, Captain Aitchison. In riding out th e g ale of Saturday, in Aberlady B iT , s h o observed a brig, Øfilsail, aboutgal two nthe inwielaesthetr° under shore. the southward shet of Largo had aunion ß ji ly k , a reel . e g n y ; i n e g av a ° t u t r l l ie g fo to re; at noon she upset in a heavy squall, and in ten imnutea Afterwards every vestige of her had disappeared. —Edin. burgh Otiserver. MEETINGS OF CREDITORS LONDON DIARY, MONDAF, Dec. 4• (At the Court of Commissioners.) Bayley, W., Als.celesfield, silk-throwster--I 2 Smith,, T., Chelsea, builder—l COUNTRY DIARY, TUESDAY, DEC. h. Bage, A., Shrewsbury—Talbot, Shrewsbury—ll Biearley, J. and J., Bolton—:Qxr,, Manell,4or—l I Burrell, G., Wakefield—Sessione-hue, Wakefield -2. Clarke, P., Manchester—White's, Pienchester......9 Crunsdill, G., Canterbury—Guildhag, Canterbury-7 Cross, F., jun., Birtstorton—Feathera, LedimrY -1 I Davies, J., Hereford—Shire-hall, Herefo:ll -1 I Devey and Co., West Bromwich—Royal Hotta 1,• Bitubls -h 1 Evil!, L., Walcot—Mr. Batehellor, Halsall, IL; Orthskirk—Talhot, Ormskirk-5 Horsfall, T., Halifax—Messrs. Alexander, Halifax—ll Lowe and Austin, Manchester—lllite's, Manchester -2' Marsden, NV., Salford—White's, Manchester-9 Maud, W. and IL, Andover—White Hart, Andover --II Medforth, li., Nafferton—Bererley Arms, Beverley—lo Morris, S., Cheltenham—Royal Mote!, Cheltenham- 11 Nabb, J., Manchesten—Ster, Manchester-9 Pollan, R. jun., Leede—Sessions.house. Leeds—l Renwick, M., Newcastle-upon-Tyne--Turk's head, Noyeaatle upon-Tyne--11 Shaw, S., Neweastle-under-Lyme--Crown, Stone-11 Shelley, T., Lewes—Star, Lewes--10 Skelton and Co., Southampton—Guildhall, hamp ton --1 Slater mid Co., Bolton—Star, MManchester---'lM anchest er---' l Smith, C., Preston—Court-houee, Leeds-- 6- Smith, T., Pennington—Star, lklanchester- 3 Somor field, Birmingham- 11 Thompt3ou, 1., Bilston—Littleton Arms, irenkridge-6- Wickham, M., Liverpool—Golden Lion, Livia-pool-1 Ward and Smith, Liverpool—Mr. Ilinde, Live/Fool-12 INSOLVENTS APPLYING ;r6 Petitions to be heard at Portugal-erect, Lincoln's -ha -de don, Dec. 6, at Nine. Boswell, J., Guildford-street, Borough, tailor Burt, J., Camb e r we ll, c l er k Common, J., Shadw c ll, h a tt e r Cortisscrs, R., Hackn e y, merc h an t Cox, J., Covent-gard en ; s pi r it-d ea l e r • Gibbs, W., Gr a y' s -i nn -l ane , b ro k er Hicks, S., L o nd on - roa d, broker Ft G iat .:9 l : o4. Holcombe, E., Thoruhauglitseet, mantel Jones, T., May-fair, shoemaker M•Pherson, P., Clare-market, clerk Robinson, C., Huddersfield, manufacturer Routley, C., Red Lion-street, tailor Simms, 8., Wapping, cooper Tanner, E., Horseleyduwn, yeoman Tomlin, C., Carlisle-street, Marylebone, hay dealer THE MARKETS. SOUTHALL MARK Fri'. —Nov. 29. • . At this day's market, which was, throughout, moderate*? ree l( supplied, and lather numerously attended by boyers, Bee f Pork experienced a tolerably brisk, Mutton and Veal a ra ' w dull sale, at the following pikes per stone of Sibs. to ta4), t l u offal.; :-- 44 ' Se 3s. Rd. to 55.. (M. j Veal _ • 43. id. to „' $ Mutton 4 3 8 6 Pork 4 2 tf The foregoing quotations arc, cef 2d. per stone beyond to‘ --- A this day sennight ; in prices of other kinds of meat no aitcratioa. considerable number of Sheep, and some Beasts, remained uniol d ot t, close of the market. LEWES MARKET.—Nov. 98. f ta .51. 16 ' Beet l 3s. Bd. to 4a. Bd. Veal. - 4 4 . Ft• I) 0 Mutton 3. 8 4 8 Pork 0 0 Supply large, but in great part of inferior quality ; trade , things brisk. A London jobber purchmed largely of the S p r n u i n e ( the i rs a :e ts ry m dtl e . rat A e' HAILSHAM MARKET.—Nov. 29.0 r 4 Beef Mutton 3 6 4 ~. 4 6 Fork 0 - .11 but ket unsold. gtrehaatturfropoShereptiongortr ith;etortiodcek w ie l o vi the ror. - - - : 0 111 - he ( :1./ firio .. RD MARKET.—Nov. 2 ir - Beef I. d. to s. d. Mutton t 4 4 6 Veal ... .................... 3 6 5. , ,, , , 4 4 4 pork ... . ....._ , ..... . ....... SlO t i Suckling caves from 14.5. to 3ts. ; Quarter.olirFig, 9J. to 14s. each, ____st!pply rather numerous, and trade Yin"' dull._______--, MANCHESTER COR/...MA-R-ICF7F.-Nov, O. .bad some✓ tan mg the improveme►it in the Dea other market in the commencement of the week, the her; has continued in .a state of languor, binUlar to what was relx ) r t in our last. Articles of general consumption continue to scot- English mul l° ; for which there is a very' slender demand. There was s good attendance on 'Change to-day, with a large show of sa: plea, few of which were disposed of even at the close a the mar lea, het. Wheat, essept for the doest qualities, is dull sale. 11„1_, holders of Oats required Id. to id. per 451 b. on last week P 1 '!' re but no business of moment was done at any advance. BeanP th e in fair request- Malt and Flour move off heavily, and are 0 11, d. to a. d. turn cheaper. _ wh C e ll a ttomar Bushel. obi riOlb. , ,S. d. toe. d. --1. n .,, 9 6 10 Irish, whi ta __ 5 . ) , ! 9 , : Pease (19W. Or) s. 6. to s. 6 81ue,(130der.)......—. .-6,1 0 66 White,(d0.)—....,..-54 tiO Beano. 0 i 4 51 A Iris g h and Forentn---32 0 66 Per bag of Alt/lb. Plour, Fine Notts-......47 n 4S 0 Yorkshire, fine4s 40 0 41 0 tine 0 ~, 0 Barrel Flour Sweet -3 0 0 0 m r , 5 0 ur...2 4 - Per load of 4401 b. O a t m eal, Englifilt S r c. 42 0 44 a 0 (feed) 10 0 36 0 Tares (imp. Qr.) 0 0 0 w, Bran (broad) p er Selb. 15.4(1. la • 0 9 • 8 7 0 Canada, 9 0 9 4 Foreign — 8 o 9 4 Barley (601 b.) For grinding.----. 6 0 6 6 Oats - (451b.) English and Scotch ... 4 9 411 Welsh...—. 4 8 4 9 Foreign Irish, Eiln.dricn 4 9 411 --Undried 4 4 4 7 Per load of 6 Imp!. bushel. Malt, Neu.— 17 0 60 0 0 46 0 -- Inferior 0 43 0 3321 sh ) e l ep .A : l7ll , EST , A.! pe N r lb. 401 607 Cattle 3 t oEit; MITHFIELD...-1,10/. 29' ang the ofThl. 22 14. 0 44 6 52 Pig. MANCHFSTEIt POTAT I Potato 6e. M., IL Od., and Ss. 0 Carrot., N. 6d ., us. M., and Its. pt' and De. 6d. per load of 16 pecks ; Oni load of 12 score. TLld:l:oal:dMvar:lf.Radlg:i7ofore.i.-2;:N'ekiriurv.re.na2ll:sl°. 41,5:111":6';' MANCHESTER I'AR ------- ---;1- q lIARKET.--Nov. T''' 1 9 to 171 Mule Cop Weft, 5 0 ---- i i 14 40 .......... 114 NO ........,, I S I i s CO ..,'''' 17 0 21# 130) .....e r _ ... 1 70 1 t; I 00 r ow... :It, ffy 1 PO ....-,•••• '';,:i. ICI 10 .....-,..-• ' • 1 lA' p i t n . an Waite , g AI 14 ..,,,,..-- 10 I 1 18 ......., 11 0 'throttle Twist, to 121 .13 14 19 20 Mule copTwisti 30,...„„,32i ISi for warp..., 14i ISe 171 1 ,, &L...-. 91 ?A 2 Y,l ......-....-- -, -. ' - 10 "ea tO hl " STATE OF TRADE.—We are so-, , 0 ,, 0' mention that trade is much worse in this Pslit °l ii ,,l 01 10 try. 'As a proof of our assertion, we adwd 0011 6 " - uatias* circumstance of two hundrtd and eig hty additions' *Pt ~0 0 0* for relief, being made last week, Ir Trent. This fact speaks volumes. Some of the Mansanhss we understand, have dismissed a number of their workmen' W w it to he Perish they bad employed hitherto three days in the week, Ind 1161 1 Ile full work to the remainder. We would beseech lbw' '- l if s ► 15 name of humanity, so employ as many hands as they et* , O,l days' work, rather than give a few the benefit of full It"" 0 ,0 dreadful 6 wages ; if they do not, we anticipate a fearful and of distress throughout this district.—Pott y Orton/. tr __.—,...._.r..1 - -' ''' of Stox_ On Of _ a .. the . 29th ult. at her a (laughter. hoßuserninTilAiTyll-atrtet, kW. T. IYOYI).' MARRIED. ~,„f e b• On the 30th ult., by special limner, at St. Pancrits L' i . ii, g. by the Rev. E.' T. Richards Cuthbert Jo hnson, Es •Of Wa"- t 0125 in ' ' ' , the county of Berk., to Charlotte hfary, elitc' S d !.„ g , is of the late Colonel Locke, of the Hon. East India Cour" 1 " service. • ' lloit On the 30th ult. at Richmond , Surrey; b y the R ev. ( ' \ l vor- Gilbert, M.A. John Wells Fletcher, E s q. o f E ar s Ju l, ,, colei s ~,, cestershire; to Elisabeth Stenter , eldes t dau g hter of the lot Kempeon, Esq. of Blackheath. mfr. On the 30th tilt. •at St. James's church , by th v 1 4v. c ( Earle, Mr. W. Cullen , of Dartfo rd, Kent, to Miss Forst; Jermyn-street. _ —____..—.., On the 30th ult. in thel D 6 rEp th ysa . r of her ace, A nn, elf:Pl3t daughter of Dr. Alexander Hunter , of Kirkton, and "- five of James Hunter, Esq. of Temple Hall, Perthshire. 14"-' On the 29th ult. at Cheltenham, Willi a m Kafiri), I".sq Secretary to the Board of Stamp. At Washington City, United States, Richard Rush, " years, third son of the Hon. Richar d' Bush, SAcretsrf of t" Treasury. Printed sad Published toy AC YOUNG, at the Strl4.ott 13isAmP.